An Englishman living in the United States in the late nineteenth century wrote stories about an Indian boy that continue to captivate children and adults alike around the world. Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book when he was residing in Vermont. The house where he resided is now owned and preserved by The Landmark Trust USA. They hold an annual…
Month: June 2026
Kiplingnama
There was a clear bifurcation in the milieu in which the books that I read as a child were set. On one hand were the Amar Chitra Katha comics, which were set in India but mainly based on mythology and history, and then, there were comics such as Tintin, Asterix and Obelix, Phantom, etc., and books that I read, which…

